We are social beings and our brains grow in a social environment.

I loved learning, it was school I hated. I used to cut school to go learn something.

There is no separation of mind and emotions; emotions, thinking, and learning are all linked.

For many students, school is an obligation, not a joy and a privilege. This means you need to ‘sell’ the learning to them.

The systems they (the Arts) nourish, which include our integrated sensory, attentional, cognitive, emotional, and motor capacities, are, in fact, the driving forces behind all other learning.

We have discovered that exercise is strongly correlated with increased brain mass, better cognition, mood regulation, and new cell growth.

.....the research on the brain does not validate that we are singularly processing input or learning with a single sensory input.

From birth to the teenage years, the brain undergoes a fourfold increase in volume

Grown ups are certainly very strange.

I used to try to write a song a day. I've been so busy lately.

I try to deal with my serious reading before work.

I love baseball - Moneyball was my favorite book when I was 13.

My Bubbie lived to 104, which is probably a little too old to consider a ripe old age, because she had already started to turn. I still say she died young.

The need for peace in Northern Ireland goes well beyond political stability. It now speaks to regional Europe and even global stability.

Were Moses to go up Mount Sinai today, the two tablets he'd bring down with him would be aspirin and Prozac.

I like men who paint or write or do something creative.

Learn to humble yourself, you are but earth and clay.

I heard stories from my mother's mother who was an American Indian. She was spiritual, although she did not go to church, but she had the hum. She used to tell me stories of the rivers.